"With me it is different. I know him."
"Ah!"
"Very well indeed."
"For any length of time?"
"Long enough, I believe, at any rate to enable me to form an opinion about him."
"Ah! Well, what do you think of him?"
"Much good and much bad."
"Hang it? ah!"
"Why are you surprised? Are not all men in the same case?"
"Nearly so, I grant."